Wausau, FL 32428 Frost Dates
Wausau, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 263 days after the last spring frost.
Wausau sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Wausau's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wausau against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 263 frost-free days, Wausau places 6,144 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,529 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32428's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wausau can differ from the 32428 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Wausau's frost date answer different questions.